A Lawyer's Journal

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For many years in the past, we had cats in-home or you can say I was a cat person, not a dog person. Last kittens we had 4 siblings all boys 3 years back. All of them except 1 left us untimely, the sad part. Then we decided that let cats come and go, we will feed but not pet them. This year is a dog year to me. Since January I have been with 1 dog then 2 more near home and now 1 more. Total we have 4 dogs now. I used to afraid of dogs and now they surrounding me all the time so that feeling fade away. Now I feel more love and connection towards them. Image by  John Hain  from  Pixabay   Often times, being kind is viewed as a  weakness . Whether it is being kind to ourselves, or being kind to those around us. In all reality,  kindness  is a strength and negativity is the real  weakness : Why Kindness is Not A Weakness by Robin Sharma In the last hour of your last day, you will regret if you were not kind in life. Kindness taken for...

A small story about how long does it take a man to realise what he lost. His name is John and he expresses regrets at the age of 46 years. Image by  sreza24595  from  Pixabay   John is a 46 years old banker. John has been in the same 9- 7 job for 26 years. John's wife admitted she has been cheating him for 10 years, the kind of girl guys regrets losing. Women's biggest regret in life is that her man is so busy in his profession. She fails to understand the signs he regrets hurting her. John's son doesn't feel anything for him. When John's wife revealed the secret he didn't feel anything. She was the kind of girl guys regret losing. John wasn't angry.  John realized he is dying slowly. John was very passionate about his life and goals. John wanted to travel the world. Later John felt that financial stability is the most important in life. John focused on his job and be failed in almost everything. John couldn't keep his family happy. After all this John w...

  Managing Loss During The Pandemic By Erin Wiley on Live Happy Podcast Erin Wiley, MA, LPCC, is a Clinical psychotherapist at, and the Executive Director of The Willow Center, a counselling practice in Toledo, Ohio. She leads a team of twenty other therapists in their goal of meeting the counselling needs of the people and families of Northwest Ohio & Southeast Michigan. The clinical focus of her therapy work is marriage, family, parenting, and relationships. She has extensive training in marriage counselling from the Gottman Institute, located in Seattle, Washington. Her most recent area of research involves the study of the management and regulation of emotion as it pertains to mental health. Let's start:- Image by  Christo Anestev  from  Pixabay   We categorize grief with the loss of marriage, pregnancy or death of someone. But there are some others too as much painful as divorce. Erin facing the loss of graduation and couldn't meet clients during this ...

  Many years ago I decided that I will not let anyone, anyone control my life. I am the master of my life. Master of my dreams and nobody has the right to intrude. I'd not let it happen. I have lived a pleasant life so far. What I want to do, I do and what I don't want, I don't. Now I have a feeling since the past couple of days that one person is trying to control my life. Following is today's Life Lesson to be learned: Visualization by John Earl Shoaff: We can get whatever we want. People make mistakes in making the choices of car, home, iPhone etc.. We live in a visualize world. If you want to bring a thing in your life, you have to visualize it. The mistake we make is to visualize negative things. I don't visualize negative things, leaving them for others. We are creators, nothing comes to us but through us. Everything you have is what you created. We have to learn to describe things. You can change life in the blink of an eye. By visualizing things as we want w...

  Covid-19 has been good for many who can manage living inside without many hurdles and I'm one of them. People say God plans everything for you and I believe it. I have all the luxuries of life and I am focussing on present and future. My mind is free of worries. Peace of mind is necessary to start anything new. Jesus Christ rested before starting a new project, Nelson Mandela rested for years in a small prison. There is some magic when you rest and think while introspecting your inner strength. 12 Magical Principles by Dr Norman Vincent Peale: Think health, talk health and act health. You will go a long way by being healthy. Provided common laws of the body. Be an actor. Acting love rather than hate. What you act tends to become a fact. Shift your thinking from what you worry. The mind can only occupy itself with one thought at a time. Think positive. Cultivate opposite. If weak cultivate power. If sad cultivate happiness. Rationalize your worries, hate, jealousy. Get a sense of ...

Hi there, how are you all? This pandemic time is pretty challenging. When it started we had no idea how life will be in it. Now almost after 6 months, we have started believing that the situation will be the same in the near future. No medicine is going to be invented, at least I have this feeling.  Image by  DarkWorkX  from  Pixabay   Design an extraordinary life by Jim Rohn Jim says it is possible and he doesn't know how far you want to go. The first essence is self-preservation. Produce sufficient for taking care of yourself.  Produce enough to take care of yourself. In a flight, if you are without oxygen then put your mask first only then put it on your children. His father said, "son you are the first most important person after me in my life". Andrew Carnegie said that the first half of his life he will spend in making money and the second half in giving it away. He earned 40 billion dollars in the first half and in the latter half he gave it away. We...

Random thoughts keep flashing in my mind. Some days are better than others. Sometimes you feel so good and other it seems like has come to a halt. Everything seems to be stopped even the wind. It feels like water in a pond which is not going anywhere. And this the beauty of life. Uncertainty makes life interesting otherwise if we knew everything life would be tedious. Image by  Malachi Witt  from  Pixabay   3 Types of people by Brian Tracy There are 3 types of people: 1 who makes things happen. 2 who wait for things to happen. 3 who ask what happened?  They don't understand that our society has gone through a fundamental transformation and it will never be the same again. We have entered in an information age where knowledge is power. Wealth today is no longer contains in plants, factory, labour, fixtures and raw material as it was in all the human history.  Today the greatest wealth contains between your 2 ears. Today wealth is contained in brainpower, not...

Psychologists say, what is your last thought before sleeping, will be your first thought in the morning. So be careful about what you read, watch or listen right before you sleep. Today it's Windy and in my observation, your emotions get attached to the surrounding. When I was in Brazil for a couple of months, mornings were cold generally and days hot. So now when in Delhi it's a little windy and cold my feeling takes my directly to 7000 miles away. And when it's extremely cold weather wind then it takes me to Washington. Even though several years passed but that feeling still fresh. Image by  Gerd Altmann  from  Pixabay   Today we are going to learn Master communication with yourself by Tony Robbins You must master self-communication. Jerry was in Vietnam in a prison for 7 years not wider than his body. When he came out he said it was the most powerful experience. He had 2 options.  Option 1: My life is finished. Option 2: Why you did this with me, God? He gets...

I went to court yesterday as physical hearings resumed. While addressing the court, the judge informed us that unless covid19 situation improves, you may come or may not and the court is not going to pass any adverse order. Then I decided not to go to the court until the covid19 is over. Why should I take a risk when the government is not taking any responsibility and I'm on my own motion. 5 years back I used to walk a lot after reading an article about walking 10,000 steps a day can make you healthier. At the same time, I started listening to audiobooks and podcasts and developing a habit for it as it could give me a lot of extra time to do things simultaneously. Initially, it was hard as English is my second language. But I kept trying and now with the practice, I can understand what book saying in the one go. Today we are going to learn from Jack Canfield. He says:- The function of belief is taking action. How many of you have an idea and you didn't work on it, another perso...